Last week, Lakeland Dairies and Fane Valley announced that they were combining their milk processing and feed milling operations.
The Irish Farmers Journal's news editor Patrick Donohoe met Lakeland’s chief executive Michael Hanley at the Tullamore Show to find out more about the plan.
The Irish Farmers Journal's digital editor Thomas Hubert heard the reaction of a dairy farmer supplying Lakeland and talked to some of the tens of thousands of people who visited the Tullamore Show - not all of whom were farmers.
Patrick Donohoe also asked IFA deputy president Tim O’Leary about his organisation's Charter for Rural Ireland, and Irish Country Living's Mary Phelan share essential tips for the transition to college life for Leaving Cert students.